Rassundari Devi taught herself letters in secret as a girl and went on to write the first full-length autobiography in ...

Mahalaya 2026 marks the beginning of Devi Paksha and the anticipation of Durga Puja. Check out Subho Mahalaya wishes, ...

Your phone probably spends a big part of the day in your hand anyway. Between messages, social media, and endless scrolling, it is easy to forget that the same device can also be used to build a small ...

Beyond his extraordinary contributions to education, Vidyasagar’s role in social reform remains unparalleled. He championed the abolition of the practice of sati, played a decisive role in securing ...

Type designers, researchers and typography practitioners have stressed the need for more research and regular practice to further develop Bengali type design and take it to the global stage. They made ...

The narrative of sarees from Bengal stretches much further than the traditionally known Tant and the well-renowned red-and-white sarees. The different types of sarees range from delicate muslin ...

A 6-year-old grips a pencil, tongue out in concentration, as she carefully forms the letters of her name. Her brain is quietly building connections. I recently watched a 4-year-old do this. It took ...

Bengaluru has a sizeable Bengali population, so it is natural that there are many restaurants serving the State’s cuisine. Concentrated in a few pockets, these restaurants dish out authentic flavours ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025). New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the most recent in a growing number of ...

Her school notes looked like a perfect computer printout … And yet they were handwritten, with a level of skill that is going nearly extinct in the digital age. A few years ago, a photo of an ordinary ...

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...